Here’s what you need to know: Some teachers’ unions push to delay in-person learning as more colleges go online only. Officials in Wuhan and Hubei Province tried to hide information from China’s central leadership, a U.S. report finds. Hold off approving plasma for emergency use, Fauci and others warn the …
Read More »A Rare Economic Bright Spot in the U.S. Health System: The Vet’s Office
The human health care system has struggled financially through the coronavirus pandemic, losing billions from the cancellations of lucrative elective operations as patients were first told to stay away from hospitals and then were leery of setting foot in one. The canine and feline health system, though, is booming. “It’s …
Read More »Expert System raises $29.4 million for AI text extraction and analysis
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Enterprise natural language processing (NLP) technologies vendor Expert System today secured $ 29.4 million in funding, $ 20 million of which came from institutional investors. (The remaining $ 9.4 million arose through the exercise of …
Read More »Researchers’ AI system strips identifiable attributes like gender from speech recordings
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now In a study accepted to the 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning last week, researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology and the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden propose a privacy-preserving technique that learns to …
Read More »‘Fundamentally flawed’ study describes facial recognition system designed to identify non-binary people
VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 14 – 17 Register Today Last Chance: Register for Transform, VB’s AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17. In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, coauthors affiliated with Harvard and Autodesk propose extending current facial …
Read More »Amazon announces New World closed beta on July 23 and unveils combat system
During the PC Gaming Show today, Amazon Games announced that its New World massively multiplayer online game will be available as a closed beta July 23. The company also revealed new details about the combat system for the colonial era online game. The game has been in development for years, …
Read More »4 Reasons Why I’m Not Gonna Crucify GrabFood’s F&B Listing System
Recently, there have been public Facebook posts made by several F&B merchants highlighting how the GrabFood app has, at times, automatically labelled their stores as being “Unavailable For Delivery” or “Closed” for one reason or another. Whenever this happens, these merchants are often unaware of it until their customers reach …
Read More »Waltz of the Wizard’s new movement system works with Oculus Quest hand-tracking
New movement updates to Waltz Of The Wizard: Extended Edition aim to make traversing large spaces in VR more comfortable — and they will even work with Oculus Quest’s controller-free hand-tracking. The system is called “Telepath,” and development studio Aldin Dynamics detailed the new options available in the PC version …
Read More »The Vogue Veteran With A WFH Reward System
“Hi! I’m Marjon Carlos (@marjon_carlos) and you might remember me from my Top Shelf. A lot has changed since then! I’ve spent the last three years freelancing, splitting my time between being a journalist, editor, brand consultant, and public speaker. Sometimes I’d be writing a cover story, producing my own …
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